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theSquid
Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
Now I understand why you make people wait a minute between each search - no search function works particularly smoothly. But what I don't understand is why when I enter a bad search term, for example one that returns an error because I searched for a three letter word why I should still wait a minute. I mean, nothing was searched, you just scanned the string. This does not clog up the servers, so the one minute rule is not required, and incredibly annoying.
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More stable, and the like.
At the very least I think it would require the introduction of a new conditional statement, but your point is taken. Another interesting point is that every line of code we write that directly modifies the vBulletin engine. When vBulletin rolls a new version we must hand merge file that we have altered rather than simply using the distributed files/patches.
In that light, the complexity becomes a lot more believable.
As far as an answer, I personally am in favor of replacing the current search technology with something that performs better. As it stands, the forum's search feature takes up more database and webserver processing time than any other application here at Penny Arcade.
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Not saying you guys should or anything, and I realize it would of been a lot of work, just surprised you didn't.
They got fed up with it and replaced with vBulletin.
I lurked in those days. It was easy to see why.
The forums now are way better, even if the search is cumbersome.